The 2020 IBSA Annual Meeting will kick off Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 1 p.m. at Tabernacle Baptist Church. The meeting, which has been abbreviated to one day due to COVID-19 limitations, will also be livestreamed on YouTube through a link to be available closer to the date at IBSA.org. “We are doing everything we can […]
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IBSA names leadership development director
Fran Trascritti is IBSA’s new administrative director of Leadership Development and will join the staff Nov. 1. In addition to leading the Leadership Development team in Springfield, his role includes supervision of zone consultants across the state. He and his wife, Teresa, will relocate to Illinois from the Nashville area, where Trascritti served at Lifeway […]
Growing number of pastors endorsing candidates away from church
Few pastors make political endorsements from the pulpit, but a growing number publicly back candidates when they step away from their church role. Among U.S. Protestant pastors, 1% say they have publicly endorsed a candidate for public office during a church service this year, while 98% have not, according to a new study from Nashville-based […]
Barrett pledges to resist ‘policy preferences’
At a swearing-in ceremony outside the White House Monday night, new Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett exhibited the same measured manner she showed during her confirmation. She also reemphasized her commitment to fulfill her duties to the court and the country independent of her own preferences. Christian leaders, including Southern Baptists, cheered her […]
Survey: Most churches meeting, but few back to pre-COVID attendance
Nashville, Tenn. | The majority of U.S. churches say they are holding in-person services, but churchgoers have yet to attend in the numbers they did before the coronavirus pandemic struck. According to the latest survey from LifeWay Research, 87% of Protestant pastors in the U.S. say their church met in person in September, while 13% […]
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